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Stack Overflow is not dead yet: Crowd answers still matter

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Denis Helić *
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Tiago Santos
DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2026.112988delete
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• Large-scale causal analysis of the impact of ChatGPT on the Stack Overflow content. • Due to ChatGPT, questions on Stack Overflow are longer with longer code examples. The results are robust and hold in short-term (a few weeks after the ChatGPT start) and long-term (a few months after the start). • In the post-ChatGPT period, the questions are becoming more difficult and deal with more sophisticated programming concepts as compared to the period before ChatGPT. • Our results are robust across thematic categories and programming languages.
Keywords:
Stack Overflow
Q&A platforms
ChatGPT
Help-seeking in programming
Large language models
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